January 26, 2006
Hamas Wins, We Lose?
Fuck me! Now that's added a tonne of complexity onto an already complex situation. But perhaps Hamas will now just get sucked into the political scene, get fat and corrupt and start shagging their secretaries.
But with Ariel Sharon still apathetically tapping on death's door and George Bush digging in and refusing to work with Hamas as only a stubbourn, brain-injured brat can, it does look a bit dodgy. (As if a government of Islamic extremist mentalists with guns and a fullblown death cult isn't alarming enough...)
Then again, plus ca change, eh mes amis fracophonique?
But with Ariel Sharon still apathetically tapping on death's door and George Bush digging in and refusing to work with Hamas as only a stubbourn, brain-injured brat can, it does look a bit dodgy. (As if a government of Islamic extremist mentalists with guns and a fullblown death cult isn't alarming enough...)
Then again, plus ca change, eh mes amis fracophonique?
January 25, 2006
Is 52% Of Winchester Really Prurient, Hypocritical And Myopic?
Never mind the fact that Mark Oaten has given Winchester 8 good years as a constituency MP. Never mind the fact that he's done his very best to stop this weirdo, messianic government turning Britain into Pyongyang Lite. Never mind the fact, either, that since 1992 everyone hated the Tories so much they would never vote for them again.
No, forget that. The only thing that matters is what Oaten gets up to in his spare time. And to hell with all the hard work he has done. Sometimes I wonder if Winchester has had it so good, it's taking things for granted.
Still, with stupid bastards like that wandering the streets, we can look forward to a Tory revival eh? It's not as if they'd be into prostitutes and adultery though, hmm?
To sum up, you elect an MP to do his job and do it well - expecting politicians to be avatars of high morality is like expecting a vegan to work in an abbatoir. Ditch Oaten if he's crap, not if he's adulterous.
(There will be, of course, a meeting with Oaten having to answer questions tabled by the Lib Dem constituency party. I'll try to find out when, and attend...)
No, forget that. The only thing that matters is what Oaten gets up to in his spare time. And to hell with all the hard work he has done. Sometimes I wonder if Winchester has had it so good, it's taking things for granted.
Still, with stupid bastards like that wandering the streets, we can look forward to a Tory revival eh? It's not as if they'd be into prostitutes and adultery though, hmm?
To sum up, you elect an MP to do his job and do it well - expecting politicians to be avatars of high morality is like expecting a vegan to work in an abbatoir. Ditch Oaten if he's crap, not if he's adulterous.
(There will be, of course, a meeting with Oaten having to answer questions tabled by the Lib Dem constituency party. I'll try to find out when, and attend...)
Another Kind Of Whoring.
What with all the goings on about Mark Oaten and rent boys, it seems Google has jumped on the bandwagon too. After all, what else - other than 'whore' - is the best term for an IT company that censors itself just to expand into the Chinese market?
If it wasn't for the USA's tradition of freedom of speech, I doubt the World Wide Web would have become so widespread. And that means Google - an American comany -probably wouldn't exist in the first place. Still, never let such a paradox get in the way of that company making money, eh?
If it wasn't for the USA's tradition of freedom of speech, I doubt the World Wide Web would have become so widespread. And that means Google - an American comany -probably wouldn't exist in the first place. Still, never let such a paradox get in the way of that company making money, eh?
January 22, 2006
Oaten Woz Robbed.
You'll no doubt heard of what's happened to my local MP, Mark Oaten. That in itself is fucking heavy as he's well known in Winchester with people either having met him or knowing someone who has. How all his electors will react is anyone's guess, but it's surreal to realise a man you all but know personally is at the centre of a tabloid sex storm. (Ironically, it was only five days ago that he called for more, well, 'Liberal' laws on prostitution...) At least his constituency party is standing by him.
But let's cut to the chase. I don't fucking care if Oaten was bumming a whole flotilla of Catamites. That's his perogative - who am I to deny his pleasures? And the only person who has the right to bitchslap him into oblivion is Mrs. Oaten. Which is what she's no doubt doing even as I type. He's been a good MP and a good home affairs spokesman and I'm grateful to have him as my man in Westminster. He's still got my vote in 2009.
But it gets my blood boiling that it's the tabloid press that's done this to him, in the form of the News Of The World. (AKA, The Scum Of The Earth, AKA The News Of The Screws.) The Screws is a paper filled with slappers selling tales of their sexual exploits with chav footballers, it's owned by Rupert Murdoch who sells porn via a satellite dish and he also owns The Sun, famed for Page 3 where strumpets get their tits out for money. Sorry - WHO'S slagging Oaten off here? Looks like Murdoch is a bit of a whoremaster himself. Or is prostitution only wrong if you do it in a brothel but not via media sold to you by News International?
And how's this for intrigue? After he was deposed, ex-Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy came out in favour of Oaten as a successor in the leadership race. Curiously enough, Oaten then quit the leadership in the middle of last week, claiming he lacked support, but in a way that seemed very sudden. Still, it looks very suspicious that this and the revelations in the 'Screws should happen so close together. Oaten has enemies in the Lib Dems care of him being on the right of the party. That and his close links to Kennedy may have made him a tempting target for some.
There's another alarming implication: gamblers out to make a fast buck may have had a hand in this too. In any case, it's a sad day.
But let's cut to the chase. I don't fucking care if Oaten was bumming a whole flotilla of Catamites. That's his perogative - who am I to deny his pleasures? And the only person who has the right to bitchslap him into oblivion is Mrs. Oaten. Which is what she's no doubt doing even as I type. He's been a good MP and a good home affairs spokesman and I'm grateful to have him as my man in Westminster. He's still got my vote in 2009.
But it gets my blood boiling that it's the tabloid press that's done this to him, in the form of the News Of The World. (AKA, The Scum Of The Earth, AKA The News Of The Screws.) The Screws is a paper filled with slappers selling tales of their sexual exploits with chav footballers, it's owned by Rupert Murdoch who sells porn via a satellite dish and he also owns The Sun, famed for Page 3 where strumpets get their tits out for money. Sorry - WHO'S slagging Oaten off here? Looks like Murdoch is a bit of a whoremaster himself. Or is prostitution only wrong if you do it in a brothel but not via media sold to you by News International?
And how's this for intrigue? After he was deposed, ex-Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy came out in favour of Oaten as a successor in the leadership race. Curiously enough, Oaten then quit the leadership in the middle of last week, claiming he lacked support, but in a way that seemed very sudden. Still, it looks very suspicious that this and the revelations in the 'Screws should happen so close together. Oaten has enemies in the Lib Dems care of him being on the right of the party. That and his close links to Kennedy may have made him a tempting target for some.
There's another alarming implication: gamblers out to make a fast buck may have had a hand in this too. In any case, it's a sad day.
January 09, 2006
Cameron To Students: Pay Up Or Piss Off.
David Cameron now agrees with the government's Great Leap Forward, whereby Universities are oversubscribed with students who shouldn't even be there in the first place and who are burdened with crushing debts for the privelege.
I know he wants to be the next Tony Blair, but copying him verbatim seems a bit excessive. (Unless he's trying to pass himself off as TB Mk2, new and improved and without all those restive Labour backbenchers or the massive, fuck-off albatross medallion...)
Then again, it lets the Tories get lots of people doing crap degrees and off the dole, which has done wonders for Labour too.
It's rather like Cameron going to a Turkey farm and defending Xmas:
"On the issue of dinner, I'll say something that's probably a bit unpopular in the barn. I'm afraid I think we're going to have to keep eating you, and I'll tell you why.
"You want to go 'gobble-gobble-gobble' all day and occasionally peck each other while I want as many Turkeys who think they're going to benefit from having three pounds of Paxo stuck up their arses to be able to get that.
"But if you want those things - and as you also know we've also too cheap to spend that much money on any alternative - Xmas dinner has got to come from somewhere. (Besides,none of you bastards vote so hahaha!)"
And it all avoids the big paradox. If the binman shouldn't have to pay for the education of tomorrow's accountant*, why should tomorrow's accountant pay for the binman's kids to go to primary school or the binman himself when he's old, unproductive and a burden?
The door swings both ways, but that's an unpopular truth for people who still want the 1945 welfare state but don't want to pay for it. Still the politicians who pander to these attitudes get the votes, so why should they care? They don't have any student debts and neither will their children.
*An attitude that changes quick time when one of the prole's own sprogs wants to spend three years getting pissed and do a degree in Post-Feminist Lawn Management Studies and the binman has to start paying up.
I know he wants to be the next Tony Blair, but copying him verbatim seems a bit excessive. (Unless he's trying to pass himself off as TB Mk2, new and improved and without all those restive Labour backbenchers or the massive, fuck-off albatross medallion...)
Then again, it lets the Tories get lots of people doing crap degrees and off the dole, which has done wonders for Labour too.
It's rather like Cameron going to a Turkey farm and defending Xmas:
"On the issue of dinner, I'll say something that's probably a bit unpopular in the barn. I'm afraid I think we're going to have to keep eating you, and I'll tell you why.
"You want to go 'gobble-gobble-gobble' all day and occasionally peck each other while I want as many Turkeys who think they're going to benefit from having three pounds of Paxo stuck up their arses to be able to get that.
"But if you want those things - and as you also know we've also too cheap to spend that much money on any alternative - Xmas dinner has got to come from somewhere. (Besides,none of you bastards vote so hahaha!)"
And it all avoids the big paradox. If the binman shouldn't have to pay for the education of tomorrow's accountant*, why should tomorrow's accountant pay for the binman's kids to go to primary school or the binman himself when he's old, unproductive and a burden?
The door swings both ways, but that's an unpopular truth for people who still want the 1945 welfare state but don't want to pay for it. Still the politicians who pander to these attitudes get the votes, so why should they care? They don't have any student debts and neither will their children.
*An attitude that changes quick time when one of the prole's own sprogs wants to spend three years getting pissed and do a degree in Post-Feminist Lawn Management Studies and the binman has to start paying up.
